Colonial Life & Accident Insurance v. Hartford Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that, in Alabama, the substantive law of the place where the contract was made “governs the validity” of the contract
• “A federal court in a diversity case is required to apply the laws, including principles of conflict of laws, of the state in which the federal court sits.”
• “The doctrine [of lex loci contractus ] states that a contract is governed by the laws of the state where it is made except where the parties have legally contracted with reference to the laws of another jurisdiction.”
• “The doctrine [of lex loci contractus] states that a contract is governed by the laws of the state where it is made except where the parties have legally contracted with reference to the laws of another jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).